Re: [gnso-pednr-dt] "Competition" in the Secondary Domain Name Market

["Mike O'Connor" <mike@xxxxxxxxxx>]

great discussion!  i too am sorry to have missed the call (and to  
compound my delinquency, i haven't had time to listen to the MP3 yet  
either).
here are a few tidbits for conversation...


tidbit 1

a friend of mine used the following definition of "monopoly" in a  
recent blog post (on broadband, not domain names) which appeared in  
lots of places when i Googled the text:
	"the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a  
commodity or service."
we seem to be agreeing that there is a period in the domain-expiration  
cycle where registrars have exclusive control over the domain name --  
so maybe we want to use that language rather than "monopoly"?  it  
seems to me that it's almost inevitable that there will be such a  
period.

tidbit 2

if we presume that there's a period of exclusive-control, it seems to  
me  that it might be useful to clearly describe;
        • what that period is
        • what the "rules of the road" are during that period
	• whether those rules are theoretically sufficient to protect the  
interests of all parties
        • see how consistently those rules are being applied, and
	• determine if anything needs to be done (clarify/strengthen/ 
publicize the rules, change the interval of exclusive control, etc.)
mikey

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